Comments for Emotional Eating PDX

Comment on Emotional Eating and Significant Moments of Beauty by Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:11:48 +0000

Thanks Jenn! That is a lovely example of appreciating what is right there before you, your cute chickens happily eating in your own backyard. Being fully in the moment, enjoying the chickens, being outdoors, noticing the stress lift, and being serenely aware of your own happiness… Love it! Kristen

Comment on Emotional Eating and Significant Moments of Beauty by Jenn L.

Jenn L. — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:05:12 +0000

Great post! I love the idea of stopping to notice significant moments of beauty. In fact, the other day I was throwing rice to our chickens and had just such an experience. The stress melted off my shoulders and in the moment of simply watching the chickens cluck as they pecked at the ground, I felt serenely happy. Here’s to living in the moment!

Comment on I Saw Geneen in Seattle over the Weedend! by Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:40:04 +0000

Let me know where your truth leads you…

Comment on I Saw Geneen in Seattle over the Weedend! by blackbeauty

blackbeauty — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:01:06 +0000

What a wonderful experience you had with Roth. Roth says that one needs to take it all the way to the end. With that being said, then your great question: “What is my truth in this situation?” would be a wonderful compass to navigate to one’s way to the end. I’ll try it this week. I also appreciated what you shared about your turning around your life. Magnificant!

Comment on Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat by Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:19:14 +0000

Yes, it seems to be about being in the present, in the moment, letting go of the need to control, the ability to give yourself up to the river of life, allowing the flow….

Comment on Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat by blackbeauty

blackbeauty — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:17:06 +0000

What a wonderful answer! It’s not about fixing but about being. You are magnificant!!!

Comment on Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat by Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:25:31 +0000

Well, it seems there is little one can do to “make it appear” in one’s life. I think it is more about “allowing” your truth to shine. And I think that flow begins to happen when you do what you’re doing Black Beauty, simply slowing down and going inward. The more you practice, the more your essence will be revealed in all that you do in life.

I like these quotes:

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver “The Summer Day”

Waking up this morning, I smile,
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at all beings with the eyes of compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh

Comment on Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat by blackbeauty

blackbeauty — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 01:20:47 +0000

At first I thought it was pure and simple like noticing a stem, two leaves, and the love of a rose opening. However, now I see it differently. That was just the beginning of the journey. You go even deeper to a place where you may even not know where you are going but you trust that you can find the answer you are looking for. You begin to slow down until all the world has stopped and yet the presence of the moment is larger than life. It is here that one finds one’s essence, one’s true voice, one’s vision. Now one needs to bring it to life, to make it appear in one’s life. This is where I am. How does one now intergrate the truth into one’s life?

Comment on Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat by Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:47:21 +0000

Hey Black Beauty,

That is a lovely question. Would you care to answer it? You with your internal poetry?

Kristen

Comment on Mississippi Steet Fair, Rockin’ Body Image by Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:20:27 +0000

Yes! Those significant moments of spontaneous beauty, I love it, the Limbo! As I was dancing “my joints” in NIA the other day, my lovely and talented instructor said something about imagining being in the grocery store aisle, and I thought , “Wouldn’t it be great if people danced, like truly danced down the grocery aisles instead of looking and feeling like grocery shopping is just another chore to do? And I thought about trying it out but couldn’t, just couldn’t because I knew people would stare at me (and possible call the cops)! But it made me wonder, are there cultures out there where it would be perfectly acceptable to be dancing in the market?

Thanks for posting Sally!